The KISS Principle

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would make up their faces in the bathroom.

That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips against the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day, the girls would do it again. Finally the principal decided that something had to be done.

She called all the girls into the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.

He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in one of the toilet bowls, and cleaned the mirror with it.

Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

There are teachers, and then there are educators...

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Now, had this been a public school, with the public coffers at their disposal, they would have called in a consultant ... maybe even a facilitator ... maybe even an analyst ... who would have charged them big bucks to tell them that the girls doing this needed counseling, paid for, of course, by the taxpayers; said counseling to focus on making the girls feel good about themselves ... after all, it must be a self-esteem problem.

The moral of the story ... sometimes the solution is simple, it's only experts who make it complicated.

Lynn M Stuter

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